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SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel

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319 points SpaghettiX | 1 comments | 10 Feb 22 09:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.274s | source
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throw3838 ◴[10 Feb 22 12:26 UTC] No.30285168[source]▶
You can get virtual server for $4/month. Installing proprietary software and registering to some service, that may "upgrade" to premium tier anytime, is pretty off-putting.
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square_usual ◴[10 Feb 22 12:33 UTC] No.30285205[source]▶
If they upgrade to premium tier, set up your virtual server then. Your total cost, $0 for the duration it's free + $4 * the rest is still lower than $4 * lifetime, and the cost for switching is only going to be marginal.
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1. throw3838 ◴[10 Feb 22 18:49 UTC] No.30290705[source]▶
I can use virtual server for many things (backup, vpn, webservices...) not just port forwarding.

Cost of my time for reading contract and learning new proprietary tool is not worth it for several years.

Cloudflare is arguably better from big tech. But cost of deployment some binary package on confidential server, keeping up with their marketing bs, etc is simply not worth it.